David M. K. Sheinin is Professor of History at Trent University (Canada). The Student’s Guide to Canadian Universities (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1999) named him “Favourite Professor” at Trent.

In March 2013, the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies awarded David The Arthur P. Whitaker Prize (best book in 2011-2012) for “Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War “ (University Press of Florida, 2012). The prize committee found that “…like the best books in our field do, Consent of the Damned offers specific insights on a time and place (the Dirty War and its aftermath in Argentina) but also speaks to broader questions, in this case, the persistent challenges to establishing and maintaining an authentic and truly effective global human rights regime.” The historian Michael Donoghue called the book excellent and original. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Kristin Ruggiero described it as incredibly provocative and wonderfully readable.

David’s 2006 book “Argentina and the United States: An Alliance Contained” (University of Georgia Press) was described in the Hispanic American Historical Review, by the historian Glenn J. Dorn, as “masterful.” Dorn noted that “…there are a few scholars in every generation who possess the range, expertise, and perspective to produce a truly first-rate survey, and Sheinin clearly falls within this elite group.” The historian James F. Siekmeier called the book “excellent” and wrote in Diplomatic History that “undoubtedly, the book will be the standard one-volume study of Argentine-U.S. relations for years to come.”

In 2005, David was appointed a member of the Argentine National Academy of History (the first and only Canadian ever designated). In 2011 he was named “Amigo de Eloisa” by Eloisa Cartonera. His books and articles include two recent, short books on boxing and Argentine society, “El boxeador poeta” [The Boxer Poet] (Eloisa Cartonera, 2010) and “El boxeador incrédulo” (The Incredulous Boxer] (Eloisa Cartonera, 2011). David has held the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History (Library of Congress/American Historical Association), and in 2008 was named Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor in Latin American History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.